Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 59
The Boxers came at sunrise one beautiful morning in June and the mother-in-law was killed at once in her own room.
Who acts: Boxers · What happens: come, kill · To what, where: mother, own room
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boxers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boxers | det |
| 2 | Boxers | Boxer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sunrise | case |
| 5 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 morning | nummod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 June | case |
| 10 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 killed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 June | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 killed | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 room | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 room | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 room | amod |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Boxers | morning; sunrise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | the mother | mother's own room | law nsubj:pass | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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